skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you noticed the new load spinner for archive.today? It seems 10x slower to load, even for the homepage. I'll try contacting the admin.

Edit: emailed them-

> Hi there,

I've contacted you in the past from a different email address and found you were responsive and helpful.
> Dear webmaster@archive.is,

> Over the past week or few weeks, I've noticed the new loading spinner at archive.is and other associated websites. The time to load even the base index homepage, much less an article, has skyrocketed.

> Your resource is so useful and I rely on it so much, I really miss being able to read articles thanks to only you and your special efforts.

> Also, wsj articles submitted for scraping no longer compete.

> But the big concern is the increase in loading time.

> Hope you can get it sorted.

> Your loyal fan,

> Metadat
Of course you know things I don't. Everyone over the age of 2 probably knows things I don't. Why would you even ask such a stupid question with such an obvious answer? And why did you phrase it in such a pretentious way? "Possess knowledge that you do not" -- who talks like that?

Oh, right. Trolls. Trolls talk like that.

Silly me.
Even the concrete and steel houses often start with wood framing of some sort and end with wood as a structural part of any ceilings and roofs. Not to mention stairs, room structures/interior walls, ...
https://www.ebay.com/help/buying/returns-refunds/returns-ref...
He definitely committed fraud, but at least it was against counterparties that were unequivocally aware of the tail risks and capable of managing them. He didn’t directly fleece retail investors like SBF, Madoff, etc..
Combined therapy makes headway for liver cancer
Yes, because they are basically exercises in bullshit. You might think they went and catalogued in detail what the benefits were, but they're actually just based on macroeconomic assumptions about what the return on R&D is.

I mean, think: for spinoff arguments to work, you need to have some notion of how technology would have progressed without NASA. How could one possibly figure out that contrafactual?
Yes.
There is a lot of money to be made in VC.
Look at "exit strategy" for more info.
The Financial Times inks new licensing deal with OpenAI
It's very similar to creating clothes by hand at home.

Can you do it, given the right tools, training, and patience? Yes.

Will they be any good? No.

Will they be cost-competitive? No.

Getting chips made on a shuttle run for an old node is very affordable. There's really no need for it.

(According to one MPW supplier, 10mm2 of 340nm, up to 10 dies, costs 6400 euros, and it's unlikely 340nm is achievable in a garage anyway)
It was a fairly unique architecture that had some pros and cons. In reality what made it a winner was the steep subsidy by Sony (units were sold at a loss, making the assumption you would buy a few games) and the availability (later removed) of an official Linux distribution.
Coffee is often regarded as one of the more environmentally friendly forms of agriculture, since the plants benefit from growing in woodland conditions and are therefore often grown in mixed-species plantings (often marketed as shade-grown coffee), and they don't typically require much intensive or invasive management (such as repeatedly tilling the soil).

I was lucky enough to see a number of these coffee farms firsthand when I did study abroad in Costa Rica as an undergrad ecology student. I was very impressed with them and the amount of biodiversity they hosted. They were certainly much, much better than nearly all of the agricultural alternatives I saw (especially banana farms, which exhibited by far the worst agricultural practices I have ever witnessed — and most of my career experience is in agricultural research, so I've seen a fair few).
Tauri has a big community. Flutter has a big community. Do you believe Tauri can survive without a direct corporate backing, while Flutter can't?

It's not a rhetoric question. I'm in need of a native application toolkit, and I gravitate towards Tauri for technical reasons. However, I'm not sure if the Tauri project has enough cash flow to sustain a durable alternative to Flutter, Qt, Avalonia, JavaFX, Compose Multiplatform, and likes.
This still generally works with SVGs.
The collective continents are not America, but The Americas, given that it is collection or South America and North America with an isthmus connecting them. I believe Brazilian Portuguese and South American Spanish also use the plural to refer to the set of continents.
You misunderstand. I was specifically addressing the post which was encouraging bad landlords think in business terms to stop their emotional antisocial behaviour.

But in reality the ideal is that landlords are considerate and decent towards renters. And, for when that fails, there are enough protections that renters aren’t at the mercy of a petty and vindictive landlord.
In medieval England, leprosy spread btwn red squirrels/people, genome evidence
I still never understood how we appropriated two whole continents.

If my name were “Bob of Idaho”, nobody would think Idaho meant only me. They would simply know I lived there.

Yes the United States are in the Americas, but it isn’t the entirety of them!

We have no more right to call ourselves “American” than Chileans do!
My understanding is that Stability was renting GPUs from AWS rather than buying them[0]. So they have no capacity per se.

[0]: https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/03/stability_ai_bills/
Yeah. There was a time back in like 2016-17 where i think it was Facebook that was decommissioning an old data center and that alone crashed the market for E5 v2 Xeons
Generally with a buffer overrun, you're trying to put executable code in, and get it to a spot where it'll be run, allowing you to do further stuff.

Here is a canonical old article on one type of buffer overflow:

http://www.phrack.org/issues/49/14.html#article

(The webp one, iirc, is not a stack buffer overflow, but rather a heap, but that'll give you a general sense of what's going on, even if that article is a bit ... dated)
True, but sometimes the reader should be.
Job Scams
You might be interested in Qubes OS, which runs every application in a virtual machine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubes_OS
Yeah sure, people there have no agency. They surely would welcome their lord and savior Putin if only these pesky NGOs didn't have so much power.
BTC-E Operator Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Conspiracy
dilloproject.org

This cost me $17.32 for two years—so this time next year, even if there's not $11 or whatever available, there'll be a whole other year to come up with it.

NearlyFreeSpeech.NET (which this isn't using right now; it's just on a free static host) allows anyone to deposit funds into an account for sites hosted there, not just the person behind the site, which means it can in theory stay up indefinitely, even if the person in charge is incapacitated and/or stops putting their own money into it (so long as they don't actively take an interest against its continued operation).
In Spain I can tell you that wood is very rarely used except in a decorative fashion. My mom is an architect and will often look down on the fact that most North American single family homes, and even more complex buildings like five-over-ones, use wood structurally.
Well, the truth is somewhere in the middle.

See:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits....

and

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/05/target-predict-teen-pregna...
I wonder if I could get strangers to heat my home with GPUs in the winter...
I love how POCSD[0] generalizes the interpreter concept to include everything from the CPU up the stack. (Similar to how they generalize naming to include everything from physical memory addresses and registers up the stack.)

[0] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-6-004-principles-of-computer...
Nowadays it's rare that a Windows-only game that I want to run doesn't run flawlessly on my Linux machine (through Proton/Wine). I wouldn't recommend going outside of Steam though unless you're willing to do some troubleshooting.
How are you different from vast.ai? What's your payout rate?
>> Is language support why people like OpenMP?

I use it sometimes with C++ because it is super easy to make "embarrassingly parallel" code actually run in parallel. And by using nothing but #pragma statements it will still compile single threaded if you don't have OMP as the pragmas will be ignored.
Major semiconductor manufacturing in Arizona is not exactly new: Motorola had fabs there in the 70s (or earlier?), Intel's presence dates to 1980, etc. The article [1] below from 2001 says that Arizona was "3rd in chipmaking"...

[1] https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA79561583&sid=googleSc...
It's easier and lighter to just use explosively driven shrapnel weapons. Lighter warhead = potential for better range, speed, maneuverability of the intercepting vehicle. If you have even more precise gear, just slamming into the drone with an inert mass works pretty well, but the gold standard for now is a bursting charge with shrapnel.
The article only briefly mentions crypto and is instead about products like Paypal, Cashapp, Venmo, and the like.
Tinfoil hat time. The recent gpt2 chatbot that everyone thought was a new open ai product - could it be?

“ You start with the gpt2.c pure CPU implementation, and see how fast you can make it by the end of the course on GPU, with kernels only and no dependencies.”

Remarkably similar nomenclature. I give it 1% chance this is related. I did play with that chatbot and it was smarter than gpt4 whatever it was.
Release the hounds to what avail? I can't read the paywalled article, but if all they are doing is restoring a physical copy, what can Disney do? I realize there are things they can try, but what law is being broken? I wouldn't think they are infringing on copyright.
Winged lions through time and space
i remember trading on that site back in the day. crazy times. it was the only other exchange besides mtgox that worked well. the troll box was a blast!
Why look down on structural uses of wood?
It's strange how society psychology changes so much. SETI and Folding were huge in scale but not in hype.
If Taupo goes again there probably isn’t anywhere on earth that won’t notice.
Supposedly the Romans and Chinese recorded some of its effects when it went ~2000 years ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatepe_eruption
Dick Rutan, pilot of the first nonstop around-the-world flight, has died
That video was pretty wild. I didn’t understand at first what had happened when the silver layer got laid down and it was suddenly reflective
Unraveling life's origin: Five key breakthroughs from the past five years
There is no 'contact us' page, which is a little concerning.
As a side issue here I can't believe sniffing is still the default.

From basically the day it existed it's been considered a best practise to send that header with every request, because there might be a vulnerability introduced otherwise . I've never heard of anyone relying on it. Why can't modern browsers flip the default on this internet Explorer era magic footgun?
"The VRO’s design allows the camera to capture a large area of sky the size of 7 full moons across in a single image."

Wow, that's a lot of sky for a telescope. Around 3.5° at once. I purchased a telescope specifically to view DSO, and it is ~3 full moons. When attaching my older DSLR, a full moon isn't even 50% of the captured image. Of course, mine's only ~150mm instead of 8.4m. Just putting size in perspective of my own use instead of using school buses or football pitches or basketball type nonsense.
Try running COD Warzone on Linux and not get quarantined to cheater-suspect lobbies.
Yes, but from an education perspective it’s probably hurting more people than it helps to use this terminology. It’s better to label the true source of the problem, rather than reduce the blame to “sugar”
It depends on how small. I’m working with really small (like less than 5mb per upload) and use a FastAPI endpoint on my API to receive the file and then have other Python code save it (or reject it)
The Romans and Chinese noticed when Taupo went off last time, so there isn’t much point evacuating, you’re dead. The scale of that eruption was just incredible.

“The eruption ejected some 45–105 km3 (11–25 cu mi) of bulk tephra, of which just over 30 km3 (7.2 cu mi) was ejected in approximately 6–7 minutes… The main extremely violent pyroclastic flow travelled at close to the speed of sound and devastated the surrounding area, climbing over 1,500 m (4,900 ft) to overtop the nearby Kaimanawa Ranges and Mount Tongariro, and covering the land within 80 km (50 mi) with ignimbrite… There were massive changes in the landscape for 40 km (25 mi) around with all life sterilised and prior landforms evened out.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatepe_eruption
You need a few things to care about wheels. Some sort of idle class with free time, domesticated draft animals, and an industrial base.

Basically, people need to stop moving around and hunting to live, which means crops and domesticated food/work animals. And large cities for a strong industrial base.

There were few places where all that came together. Maybe the Incans? But they also has waterways and slaves.

But I agree, the timing was short.
Yes: https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/31/qarnot-raises-6-5-million-...

> French startup Qarnot (...) manufactures heaters and boilers with a special trick — they pack computers as computers tend to generate a lot of heat. Qarnot then lets companies leverage that computing power by running tasks on those unusual servers.
> "Antisemitic mobs have taken over leading universities," Netanyahu said. "They call for the annihilation of Israel. They attack Jewish students. They attack Jewish faculty. This is reminiscent of what happened in German universities in the 1930s."

The "nationwide threat of anti-Semitic mobs on campus" is a moral panic on a level that hasn't been seen in a long time. A completely invented idea that has nonetheless yielded a 24/7 media freakout and the passage of important legislation in Congress.
Also a good idea to stream large files instead of trying to directly serve the file as-is. For video you essentially have to stream the file in order for it to load on Safari.
Always cool to see Dafny mentioned!

Shameless plug: I just wrote a beginner's introduction to Dafny a few days ago.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/getting-started-dafny-your-fi...
The next obvious step is for someone to implement the original Fallout in this Tview.. the resolution of the original is low enough that I'd bet this is possible.

https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/38400/ss_6c578...

Btw, how is "Tview" pronounced?
And if the bank ever needs to call me, they a) call and get unanswered, b) leave a note in my bank account's message system which c) sends me an email telling me I have an unread note and to log in to read it.

The few times this has happened, the note is simply 'call the bank's 0800 number and quote your account number', their robo menu will then automatically forward me to whoever is trying to reach me as soon as I hit the 'speak your account number' menu point (and if for some reason that fails, it then goes to a human operator who will then forward me to whoever was trying to reach me.

I've never even had a whiff of them being annoyed by this chain of events the 3 or 4 times it's triggered (always due to steam triggering fraud protection)
What's preventing GPU providers from sending wrong results instead of actually running the computation? For example, send the last computed result? Is this something that the renter has to handle by adding their own checks?

In addition to the problem of the renter crashing your machine or reading your password through DMA, of course.
My Journey to Explaining Explain in Postgres
In the Antithesis of a trump supporter but don’t make it seem like Obama couldn’t have done anything when he benefited from the low rate environment too.
Someone get Styropyro to build one to power a laser cannon.

https://youtube.com/@styropyro?si=6odE-Af0yU8ZpzxE
Possibly, this was after it was spun-off as a separate company.
How to (not) lock yourself into architectural drawbacks
The video was very cool. The arm swings around and hello! Just like that, it's a shiny mirror. Very impressive effect to be sure
> One of my favorite EU (or German? not sure)

Maybe there is also an EU regulation now, but at least in Germany the "Telemediengesetz" was introduced in 2007, where §5 "Allgemeine Informationspflichten" is responsible for the need of an Impressum.

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/tmg/__5.html
Get big enough that your failure represents a systemic risk, allowing you to call on institutional backstops?
State employees fired after IG finds federal aid fraud
Ensure you have adequate cleanup procedures too. I heard from ex-employees of a major car reselling platform that CSAM was distributed by creating a draft car ad, never publishing it and the CSAM was now hosted and accessible via direct image URLs. The records were orphaned, not sure how they got the tip-off.
Thorn in a HaizeStack Long-Context Jailbreak Test
quite a lot of Wordpress setups run on sort of shared hostings to the date. Plesk and Cpanel are still a thing in this area. And Wordpress is still massive share of websites.

PHP-FPM which has options to specify system user per pool is basically how restrictions on file_get_contents are enforced.
Single use upload URL isn't the only use case for pre-signed URLs though. They are more commonly used for quick-expiring downloads for example.
I agree with the article, opera should be seen as well. It’s an event, an opportunity to explore emotions, and an exhibit of talent from musicians, singers, and staff. Some of the arias work well as stand-alone audio recordings, but it is the entire opera that must be seen and heard to really feel the story. Take a chance and attend a few operas.
I don't care about being discarded, but I do care about financial security. I grew up with near nothing, and I'll fight and claw to never end up there again.
i prefer calling up clergy and asking them when i have questions of this sort. I'm non-religious but in order to talk about it respectfully i sometimes have questions.
Preliminary Macintosh Business Plan (12 July 1981) [pdf]
I don't do Swift or JS/React professionally (well, tiny bit, but I'm not a "React professional"). However, I've made non-toy Swift/SwiftUI* (~7k loc) and React (~4k loc) project.

Imho Swift/SwiftUI is way more of a joy to work with. In particular, SwiftUI is much easier to visually parse whereas JSX is noisy and IMO hideous. I also ended up needing to bring in way more third-party dependencies for JS/React, something I hate doing if avoidable**.

* It is my understanding that many iOS professionals prefer UIKit bc SwiftUI is still missing stuff. I only ended up needing to fall back to it once or twice.

** ClojureScript/Reagent do solve most of my issues with JS/React (by essentially replacing them). Clojure is well-designed with a great standard library (so less need for dependencies or implementing stuff that should be in a standard library). Hiccup is way preferable to JSX.
Or WebAssembly: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/02/securing-firefox-with-weba...
'04 was good times for that indeed lol. Early enough that almost no regular developers knew anything about security. SQL injection vulnerabilities were the norm lol. It's really a shame that things turned nasty around then as well. Most people hacked stuff for lulz in those days, but now they do extreme damage.
It obviously depends on the use case.
Regulators do understand advertising. That ground is well-tread.
I live in a place where Vultures are protected, so there's tons of them, and I have seen them circling in both cases, clearly hovering a carcass, but also randomly circling in numbers when no food is around...
It’s hard to move in Auckland pretty much any time. A tactical volcano might improve Auckland's infrastructure, hopefully joining the North Shore to the city in a way no politician has ever managed.
I’m pretty sure, if memory serves me, some of the older versions of IE (Internet Explorer, I imagine some people here may be young enough to not be aware of that) used to let you pass any sort of file hosted over HTTP with arbitrary extension set (e.g. ‘.jpeg’) however it would actually do some MIME typing and execute the file based on the actual content, so you could literally set a .exe with a jpeg file extension at the time and IE would let you run arbitrary executables on Windows users systems at the time with full permission of the user running it (which was pretty much often admin). You could also do other file types but an executable was the most glaring example of how bad the issue was. Obviously you could embed this in HTML as well…
"Whatever happens, we have got. The Maxim gun, and they have not."

It turns out that having 'true intelligence' probably doesn't matter if the tribe from the next valley over has bronze weapons and armour and would quite like to steal your stuff and enslave your people.
Thanks for your work on this, using it to find something to watch now!
Yes subjective. Sorry.
Hi! I think this company looks great, and I just applied using the google form. I just wanted to point out though that a few of the questions on the form were quite confusing (maybe this was done deliberately to throw off an LLM, but it threw me off as well). I had an especially hard time on the last question, and I'm pretty sure I didn't answer the question you wanted me to answer, but I genuinely could not figure out what you were actually asking.

Anyways, as I said, I am very interested in this position and would love to chat more about it!
That's a ~12 year construction project. 5.4 Billion USD per year is nothing these days. Only 0.006% of annual GDP for a project that has the potential to transform our civilization.
They bid too high
Yes, I enjoyed that too. I was pretty into Star Wars and CGI at the time. (Did some models and animation for "Star Wars Quake" mod.) While it may seem pathetic today, back then it impressed me.
The problem was that eventually he (through his brokers hedges) owned enough of these equities to cause massive slippage if he cashed out. He knew this, so he couldnt really cash out, even though he was up massively on paper. And then his stocks had a bad couple weeks and he wasnt up massively and the banks tried to unwind and discovered the massive slippage problem he already knew about. I think in basically every case like this it just comes down to getting in too deep and the only way out looking like doubling down. When the options are "5% chance of success if I double down or 0% if I dont" you double down because why would you care if the banks lose more.
Because “successfully siphoned off by bureaucrats” has an implicit value judgement in it. If someone a) thinks the cost of regulation provides value and b) believes that downvoting is a reasonable response to opinions they disagree with, they’re likely to downvote in this case.

Personally I only believe one of those things. I also believe the point about additional cost of development could have been made without the value judgement.
Cool pictures
Peak College Admissions Insanity
Another complication is that boredom was easier to come by in 1932. There are far more things competing with far more sophistication for our attention today. Boredom is underrated!
> They would remark about how the airport was little more than a corrugated iron hut at the time.

It hasn’t got any better.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2...
Yes, same -- for me a '98 Toshiba laptop running NetBSD. Nicer to use compared to lynx but not bloatware.
If it were, what's wrong with that?